Improvement in connecting-rods



B. r. WILSON.

Connecting-Rods.

Patented July 22,1873.

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, BENJAMIN F. WILSON, OF SALEM, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CONNECTING-RODS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,191, dated July 2.2, 1873; application filed June 4, 1873.

where such rods areused by the employment of a screw-thread upon the shaft of the rod to engage with a corresponding female screw formed in the butt or stub end forthe purpose of tightening the box therein, insteadof using the strap, gib, and cotter, as ordinarily made.

Figure 1, E E, shows the rod made in two pieces, and connected in the center with a right and left hand screw-s1eeve,D, which is firmly held in place by the set-nuts O O. The extremities of the rod pass through .the butts G G with screw-threads B B and hold in place the half boxes A A, being secured in purpose of connecting the parts and also tight.

ening the boxes, as shown.

2. In combination with rod E E, butts G G, and boxes A A and set-nuts O O,'the right and left hand screwed sleeve D and set-nuts O 0, when arranged substantially as shown.

BENJ. F. WILSON.

Witnesses:

CHAS. F. WILSON, M. O. STEVENS. 

